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The Thurber Album: A New Collection of Pieces about People
by Thurber, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: James Thurber. author's note, foreword by author. Light blue coloured cloth covered boards with ochre coloured inserts to the back strip and within those inserts silver coloured titles. Humans, as the inimitable, James Thurber saw them. Softening to the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Handling marks and stains to the book panels with sunning of the back strip and rubbing of the titling. Light browning to the text block edges and pages. Offset tanning and scattered foxing to the endpapers. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right hand corner of the front paste-down – this has ghosted on to the free front endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], IX - XIII, [1] 240 pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: James Thurber. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Humour; Illustrated; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 0122121. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0122121
- Title
- The Thurber Album: A New Collection of Pieces about People
- Author
- Thurber, James
- Illustrator
- James Thurber
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Humour, James Thurber -- Short Stories Humour; Illustrated; Literature & Literary. James Thurber Unbranded Thurber, James The Thurber Album: A New Collection of Pieces about People
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour; Illustrated;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
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